BucolicaWhat is ancient pastoral? The present work is designed to answer that question for students of ancient and modern poetry, for poets, and for the educated people. My essays are meant to depart from conventional discussion of the Bucolics and to share, even with the 'uninitiated', the fruits of a century of scholarship in Europe and America. Poetry is complicated stuff; the Bucolics may be the most difficult poetry to survive from the ancient world. -- Preface. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 26
Page 44
... carmina . pascite taurum , iam cornu petat et pedibus qui spargat harenam . Qui te Pollio amat veniat quo te quoque gaudet . mella fluant illi , ferat et rubus asper amomum . M. Qui Bavium non odit amet tua carmina Maevi atque idem ...
... carmina . pascite taurum , iam cornu petat et pedibus qui spargat harenam . Qui te Pollio amat veniat quo te quoque gaudet . mella fluant illi , ferat et rubus asper amomum . M. Qui Bavium non odit amet tua carmina Maevi atque idem ...
Page 78
William Berg. Carmina vel caelo possunt deducere lunam , carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi , frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis . Ducite ab urbe domum mea carmina ducite Daphnim . Terna tibi haec primum triplici diversa ...
William Berg. Carmina vel caelo possunt deducere lunam , carminibus Circe socios mutavit Ulixi , frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis . Ducite ab urbe domum mea carmina ducite Daphnim . Terna tibi haec primum triplici diversa ...
Page 80
... carmina ducite Daphnim . Fer cineres Amarylli foras rivoque fluenti transque caput iace nec respexeris . his ego Daphnim adgrediar . nihil ille deos , nil carmina curat . Ducite ab urbe domum mea carmina ducite Daphnim . Aspice ...
... carmina ducite Daphnim . Fer cineres Amarylli foras rivoque fluenti transque caput iace nec respexeris . his ego Daphnim adgrediar . nihil ille deos , nil carmina curat . Ducite ab urbe domum mea carmina ducite Daphnim . Aspice ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION I | 1 |
IDYLLS | 7 |
THE BUCOLICS OF VIRGIL text and translation | 26 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aeneid Aitia Alexis Alphesiboeus Amaryllis amor Amyntas ancient Apollo Arcadia atque Bhagavadgītā bucolic bucolic poetry bucolic world Callimachus carmina Catullus cave cicadas Corydon Culex Cyclops Damoetas Daphnis Desport Dionysus divine Ducite echo Eclogue Eclogue 9 Enkidu epic Epigram erotic Euripides facta fifth Eclogue flock fourth Eclogue Galatea Gallus genre Georgics gods Golden Age Greek haec Hellenistic herds herdsmen hero Hesiod Homer Hubaux Idyll Incipe inspiration Iollas ipse Jachmann Klingner lament landscape Latin Lead Daphnis literary tradition Lucretius Lycidas Meleager Meliboeus Menalcas mihi Moeris Mopsus motifs Muses myth nature nunc Nymphs Octavian Orpheus pastoral poetry Phoebus Pindar poem poet poet's poetic activity Pollio Propertius puer puer's quae quid reference rôle Roman poets rustic Servius shade shepherd shepherd-poet Silenus Simichidas sing singer Skutsch song springs symbol tamen Thalysia themes Theocritean Theocritus Thyrsis tibi Tityrus trees umbra Varus verse Virgil Virgilian pastoral Wimmel words